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Guy D. McCardle is a sixteen-year veteran of the United States Army and most recently served as a Medical Operations Officer during OIF I and OIF II. He holds a degree in Biology from Washington & Jefferson College and is a graduate of the US Army Academy of Health Sciences. Guy has been a contributing writer to Apple News, Business Insider, International Business Times, and Medical Daily. He has over 8,000 answers and more than 30,000 followers on Quora, where he is a top writer on military topics. McCardle is the Managing Editor of the SOFREP News Team, a collective of military journalists.
For months now, Russian soldiers have time and time again denied the intentional killing of Ukrainian civilians. Even as soldiers, they continue their denials, such as 21-year-old Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin pleaded guilty to illegal killing and was sentenced by a Ukrainian court to life in prison.
Exactly how much is too much? It’s clear to many of us in the west that the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers is an acceptable cost to Vladimir Putin to take Ukraine and do with her as he sees fit.
The United States Navy has identified the sailor killed in a motor vehicle accident near Jacumba, California, last Friday as Electronics Technician 2nd Class John Deltoro, age 29.
In modern-day Ukraine, their Kraken forces are no less scary, killing Russians by the score and taking back once-occupied sections of their homeland.
It’s been no secret to the world for several months that something is very wrong with Russian President Vladimir Putin
In the days and hours leading up to the D-Day invasion, extremely dangerous missions were given to the British Special Air Service (SAS) commandos, Navy UDT divers, and Jedburgh teams. You may be asking, “What’s a Jedburgh team?” Read on to find out.
The war in Ukraine is of a highly fluid nature and is a hybrid sort of conflict mixing conventional and special operations forces on the same battlefield. There are some lessons there for SOCOM which they are surely paying attention to.
Usually, the majority of the fog of war is contained on the battlefield; today, it has spread to the White House and the media.
Everyone knows the story of George Armstrong Custer, but few know the story of his brother Tom, who George said should have been a general instead of him.
As far as weapons systems go, the Stinger is kind of old. It was first designed in 1967 and went into production starting in 1978. Let’s have a look at the Stinger that’s been stinging the Russians.
I returned home from a 15-month deployment in 2004 a different man than when I left. I had been medically separated from the service, and although I didn’t want to admit it, I needed help—apparently, a bunch of it.
The US shipping Harpoon and Naval Strike Missiles to Ukraine could bottle up the Russian Black Seas Fleet in port for good.
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